'''Daniel Dennett''' (born March 28, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a prominent American philosopher and author whose research focuses on [[philosophy of mind]], [[philosophy of science]] and [[philosophy of biology]], particularly as those fields relate to [[evolutionary biology]] and [[cognitive science]]. He is currently the Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. Dennett is also a noted [[atheist]], a critic of [[religion]] and [[faith]], and an advocate of the [[Brights movement]].